Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 105

The _tino_ of the name, the place where it had its origin, was an ancient lagoon-swamp at the foot of the Cashmere Hills, which the river drained.

Who acts: mokihi, tino, river · What happens: have, be, drain · To what, where: origin, ancient lagoon swamp, foot

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mokihi, tino, river), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tino	det
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 tino	punct
3	tino	tino	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swamp	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 name	punct
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 name	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 name	det
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tino	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 place	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	appos
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 had	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 place	acl:relcl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 origin	nmod:poss
15	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tino	punct
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 swamp	cop
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 swamp	det
19	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 swamp	amod
20	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swamp	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 lagoon	punct
22	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 foot	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 foot	det
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swamp	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 Hills	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Hills	det
28	Cashmere	Cashmere	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Hills	compound
29	Hills	Hill	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 foot	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 drained	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 drained	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 river	det
33	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drained	nsubj
34	drained	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 swamp	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 swamp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	mokihi	mokihi's origin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Patient
2	is a	past	the tino and the name	a ancient lagoon swamp	the foot of the Cashmere Hills	tree rules
3	drain	past	the river	a ancient lagoon swamp		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 105